At that young drivers are distracted for a second before the accident
Tips A Life / / December 19, 2019
A study of 1700 episodes preceding the accident, gives a clear understanding of what circumstances lead to traffic accidents. We hope that the proposed figures and video will make you rethink their behavior behind the wheel.
Someone thinks car a luxury, and someone - a means of transportation. But those and others often forget that the machine, when everything else, does not cease to be a source of danger both for the driver and for other road users. And this short memory leads to accidents from the unfortunate damage to the body and bruises on his arm to Hollywood turning fatal.
How to avoid trouble? Recommendations provide researchers from the traffic of the American Automobile Association nongovernmental Security Fund (AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety). deep analysis subjected to 1700 records video recorders installed in the vehicles of young Americans. And one of the cameras on a habit to watch the road, and the second record what is happening in the cabin.
Of course, of course, wrong to compare the 'stupid' overseas teenagers with hardened edges of our drivers! But do not rush to statements. Just look at a short video in which you are sure to find a piece of their habits.
Eloquently and ordinary, is not it? But an even more detailed picture gives statistics according to which led to the accident:
- driver interaction with one or more passengers - 15%;
- cell phone use - 12%;
- Search things about the cabin - 10%;
- diversion of objects and events outside of the machine - 9%;
- singing and "dancing" to the music - 8%;
- preening - 6%;
- attempts to reach out to the subjects - 6%.
Researchers noted separately harm mobile handsets: six seconds prior to the crash, four a second driver is not looking at the road, because of what he did not have time to hit the brakes or turn wheel.
This is the answer to the question, why penalize for using the phone while driving.
Concluding the article, I want to note that youth - a multi-faceted concept. It can also be regarded as the age, and how the experience. So no matter what time you got right and got behind the wheel - the experience is still a little bit, just like those American drivers still green.
Confess, how often and on what you are distracted on the road?